Reuters via Bangor (ME) Daily News, posted 4/16:
Oil-by-train shipments resume in Maine after long hiatus
AUGUSTA, Maine — Oil trains are once again rolling through Maine after slowing to a near halt following the deadly train accident almost two years ago in Lac-Megantic, a small town just across the border in Quebec, according to state records.
Pan Am Railways reported carrying 37,128 barrels through the state in February, the first train-borne oil shipments since March of 2014, according to the most recent figures from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Maine had been among the largest oil exporting states in the nation before the Lac-Megantic incident, shipping crude from North America’s interior fields mainly to the 300,000-barrel-per-day Irving oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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